Maida Vale

Your Safer Neighbourhoods Team is a group of Met police officers dedicated to serving your community. The team is made up of officers based in your area or 'ward', supported by additional officers from the wider area.

We work closely with local authorities, community leaders and residents to decide our policing priorities for the area. This helps us to find useful, long-term solutions to local problems, while maintaining our wider focus on reducing crime across London.

To speak to your local team about policing issues, and find out how you can get involved, you can email them at AWMailbox.SNTCWMaidaVale@met.police.uk.

In an emergency always call 999.

If it is not an emergency, you can report crime online at www.met.police.uk or dial 101.

We regularly speak to local residents to establish what issues they may be experiencing in the area. The word cloud below represents the issues that residents of Maida Vale have highlighted as priorities for the area recently. Word clouds are graphical representations of word frequency that give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently. The larger the word in the visual below the more common the word was in the local survey.

We seek to tackle the issues raised by you and your communities in your local area. To 'Have your say' on local issues, please click on the button below to complete a short survey.

Violence Related Priority

Robbery

Targeted patrols to reduce Robbery offences, in particluar those targeting schoolchildren. Using police intelligence systems to build an overall picture as to when the offences are taking place and the nature of the offences. To liaise with school officers and school staff to assist in that picture & offer crime prevention advice to students.

ASB

Anti-Social Behaviour; in particular that affecting Tollgate Gardens, Kilburn Park Road, Elgin Parade and surroundings.

Using police systems to identify frequent times and locations ASB is happening and local intelligence to establish potential repeat offenders. High visibility patrols across the Ward based on intelligence but also dedicatd to Tollgate Gardens, Kilburn Park Road, Elgin Parade and surroundings. Community engagement with residents. Taking positive enforcement action against known offenders, seeking injunctions where applicable.

Burglary

Burglary

To reduce Burglary offences specifically in the Maida Vale area. Using police intelligence systems, local knowledge and shared intelligence from Burglary Squad to establish hotspots, repeat victims and preferred times/days. Regular targeted high visibility patrols to deter & detect offenders. Community engagement and Crime Prevention advice alongside victim visits and 'Cocooning' of nearby addresses for target hardening purposes.

In an emergency always call 999. If it is not an emergency, you can report crime online at www.met.police.uk or dial 101.